Tesuque

Welcome to Tesuque

Highlights

• Tesuque Village Market
• El Nido
• Bishop’s Lodge
• Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado

• Santa Fe Opera
• Shidoni Gallery & Sculpture Garden
• Albert Schmidt House & Studio - National Register of Historic Places
• Tesuque Glassworks

• Tesuque Pueblo is on the National Register of Historic Places
  
  

  • first established before 1200 AD, first visited by europeans in 1591
  • played an important role in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, which drove the Spanish out of NM
  • most successful Native revolt in North American history
  • the Spanish returned in 1692, but were more civil to the Pueblo people
• Tesuque Village next to pueblo was founded by the Spanish in 1740

• Carlene Carter, singer and songwriter
• Howie Epstein, American musician, bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Lynne and Dennis Comeau, shoe designers
• Dominic Frontiere, composer
• Ali MacGraw, actress and model
• Armistead Maupin, author
• Cormac McCarthy, author
• Anthony Michaels-Moore, opera singer
• Eliot Porter, nature photographer who lived in Tesuque from 1946 until his death in 1990
• Michael Tobias, author
• Carol Jean Vigil, New Mexico's first female Native American state court judge
• Rufina Vigil, painter

• Tesuque is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Nine Chapter 1.
• There is a passing mention of Tesuque in chapter 6 of the 1932 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
• Tesuque is mentioned in the 1966 novel The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy.
• Michael Tobias' 2005 novel, The Adventures of Marigold, is set in Tesuque.
• Tesuque is also mentioned in the 2016 Stuart Woods novel "Dishonorable Intentions".
• In the final episode of the crime drama series Breaking Bad, the characters Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz live in a new mansion in Tesuque.